Native Vertical Tabs

[Gecko]

From the previous post on Crowdicity:

I would like to see vertical tabs baked in. MS Edge now has it out of the box!

I currently use addons for this - but there's no way to disable the top tab bar, which duplicates the tabs and takes up space.

Vertical tabs (with top bar disabled) would free up more space for web content, which is (usually) vertical. Most screens are widescreen (RIP ThinkPad 4:3 ratios), so the less browser UI at the top/bottom, the more content we can view.

The original post received 154 votes and as such was the 3rd highest voted post in the "General" category.

[asafko]

Hi folks,

We have landed the first, very early version of vertical tabs for you to try out in the latest Nightly. Please see more details in this post.

Please note that we have not yet landed the patch that removes the empty space of the navigation bar and forces application controls in one line. Hopefully, this will land sometime in August, so you might want to wait for that improvement. We are also making updates and improvements to the experience daily, so please hang in there while we improve it.

[Kazper]

This is great news! I'll try it out (well aware of the work that still needs to be done) a bit in the coming days. Great work!

[panosl]

Is there a way to define a keyboard shortcut to toggle the whole sidebar on macOS?

The options up till now are:

• cmd+B for Bookmarks
• cmd+shift+H for History

I don't see an option for the whole sidebar. There is a Show/Hide sidebars toolbar button. Ideally I'd like to have a way to toggle it with a shortcut.

Also the Hide sidebar option does not seem to take effect ever.

Let me know if I should raise an issue for those.

Other than that, thank you for making it a native option.

[Zhangdd]

When the Vertical tabs is turned on, the search suggestions in the search box will coincide with the bookmarks

[moppelg]

Sorry for not reading all 20 pages:
but here my 50 cents: Please also enable the possibility to put the adress/seach/navigation bar on the side. That would give more valuable vertical space for browsing.

On the other hand for most cases the vertical bar should have enough space to take the navbar on board. Furthermore to see all >400 letters of a full blown html adress is usually not of value.

Best regards

Markus

[NeoX]

Vertical Tabs

Respected Sir, the most important feature at current time is the vertical tabs and with the help of vertical tabs the user is able to open hundreds of open tabs and remain in control of those hundreds of open tabs. Sir I have been waiting for the launch of vertical tabs in the Mozilla Firefox for a considerable time but the vertical tabs have not been introduced till now. Sir if the vertical tabs are introduced in the Mozilla Firefox then a substantial number of people of the world will migrate to the Mozilla Firefox. Sir the period of horizontal tabs has gone and the current time belongs to the vertical tabs.

[Jon]

(Note: similar ideas have been merged into this thread)

[Jon]

@NeoX thanks for the suggestion! We're actually working on vertical tabs right now, and it's actually available to try out in Firefox Nightly — learn more here:

Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out in Nightly Firefox Labs 131